Chronicle of My Mother

April. 28,2012

Rating：

7.3

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Semi Autobiographical Emotionally Distant

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Koji Yakusho as Kosaku

Kirin Kiki as Yae

Aoi Miyazaki as Kotoko

Kaho Minami as Kuwako

Midoriko Kimura as Shigako

Mimura as Ikuko

Akiko Kikuchi as Noriko

Takahiro Miura as Segawa

Erina Mano as Sadayo

Rentaro Mikuni as Hayato

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Reviews

GamerTab

2012/04/28

That was an excellent one.

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Baseshment

2012/04/29

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Erica Derrick

2012/04/30

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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Lela

2012/05/01

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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skyhawk-6

2012/05/02

The opening shot is reminiscent of OZU's FLOATING WEEDS in which NAKAMURA GANJIRO and KYO MACHIKO had a shouting match in the rain, taking shelters in an alley separated by the hard rain. KYO had a red umbrella. So did this opening. A woman who wears the exact kimono KYO wore runs across the screen, breaking the tension between Young mother and her son, Kosaku. Beautiful tribute to the OZU masterpiece. The film starts with the hard rain and ends with the end of rain. Young mother gives Kosaku a lucky charm in the opening. Aged Kosaku returns the lucky charm to his mother in the coffin in the end. Fascinating book-end effect! In between, many scenes involving water. At one point, Kosaku refers "Sea" as metaphor of Death. His second daughter leaves for Hawaii by the sea reminiscent to the departure episode in TOKYO TWILIGHT. OZU tributes everywhere, yet the characters are deep on their own. Probably deeper than any characters in OZU films.And then INGMAR BERGMAN. I think the basic situation of the novelist/antagonist is similar to GUNNAR BJORNSTRAND role in THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.This film won the Special Jury Grand Prix at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival. How come it's not recorded in the award column?

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